Zoomy's thing

At the UK Championship in 2008, I was at my peak of memory fitness, at least in terms of National Standard competitions, which are a differe...

Those adverts for mind-altering drugs to use on your cats and dogs. There's something deeply wrong about the whole idea. Though I'm ...

I see that next Thursday, there's a match between Gateshead and Newport County, at Boston Utd's York Street ground. Gateshead appare...

Remember that blog last year about how my monthly income from "How To Be Clever" had inexplicably increased to the dizzy heights o...

The results of the Slovenian championship that I was so ignorant about yesterday have popped up on the internet - Christian Schäfer, Boris ...

The USA Memory Championship is happening right now, over in New York. Wish I was there - a Canadian TV company were looking for something t...

Normality reasserted itself well and truly on the final day of the othello, with me losing all three games horribly - I'm meaning to wri...

Othello! I haven't played for so long, I seem to have forgotten how to play badly. Eleven players, so a round robin with eight games tod...

Here I am, back in Cambridge. Depending on whether I went to the Christmas tournament last year (I can't remember), I haven't been h...

While my brother was here, he showed me something he'd found in a charity shop, and asked "Do you remember this book?" ...

My brother's just gone back to China, having been staying with me for some time, and one thing we always like to do when we get together...

Facebook is a funny thing. Yesterday I found myself with invitations to "like" two pages - Dave Farrow's, which asserts that h...

The sun's shining! It's warm enough to go out without a coat, just about! You have to chain yourself to the ground so as not to be b...

If you're a French speaker and want to know what "How To Be Clever" by that Ben Pridmore person was all about, can I suggest t...

Really, it's not like the ballboy was a tiny helpless infant - he was a hulking great teenager who could probably beat Eden Hazard in a ...

There are some nice photos of the WMC to be seen here: Photographer Captures The Strain At The ‘World Memory Championships’ . I'm not ...

My Blogger stats page tells me I've had a lot of pageviews from Poland lately, so I just want to say a big hello, Pole or Poles who'...

Just a quick primer for those not quite as obsessive about superheroes as I am: Superhero comics were huge in America in the 1940s, nearly d...

Having publicised the Friendly Memory Championship, I feel I should tell you all about the other memory competitions coming up in the next f...

The combination of snow here this morning and the squirrel calendar I got for Christmas got me in reminiscent mood about the Austrian Memory...